Sony Xperia Z Ultra is the largest 'phone' ever: here is how it eclipses all others (size comparison)

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra is real, it's official and... it's humongous. Sony calls its 6.44-inch creation a smartphone, most people would call it a phablet, and in reality it looks much more like a tablet than a phone. Heck, it even comes with a "handset" compact accessory to take calls!

It's hard to comprehend just how big a device with a 6.4-inch display really is. The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 seemed absurd when we first got it in our hands and as quick we humans are to adapt to novelty, it seemed just too large even after we spend some time with it. The size comparison below is eye-opening - you'd see that the Xperia Z Ultra is noticeably larger than even the Mega 6.3.

The Z Ultra has one key advantage, though. It's got a razor thin body measuring just 6.5mm thick. Could that balance its humongous size? Partly, yes, but for the rest we'll leave the images below speak for themselves.

But I do not want it as I already have the ZL because of its compact size and 5" screen which is a more than enough pleasant viewing experience (No, I don't care about the viewing angles) and the performance has been good since the Android 4.2.2 update. I have the Xperia Tablet Z to do those Tablet task anyway.

Wait the phone has no camera flash & only 3000mAh battery to power a 6.44" screen? are you effin kindding me SONY? ok the battery is justifiable but lack of Camera Flash?
This would probably again look incomplete when it's gonna be size up with the Note 3.

these frontal comparisons dont really do anyone justice. Theres a hands-on size comparison on engadet, and the Z compared to the ZU doesnt look nearly as small as it does here. But I sure am happy its 6.4 and not 6.2. You go Sony. You just may get my money this year. On something other than gaming media.

damn i friggin love it! it's like the kind of tablet i can roam around with and not feel awkward! (totally non-sarcastic) i'm getting this for sure.my s3 will remain my phone and this will become my mini tablet.

Lol I know I remember when the iPhone 1st came out with a 3.5" screen I thought that is a brick of a phone and that I would never carry a phone that big and now I own a 5" s4.. How our perception change over time..

Oh and why it would be awesome if they just skipped form 1080p to 2.5k with these phablets. If a 7 inch tablet can have it then maybe it's not that much harder to fit it in to something a little smaller. Come on Galaxy Note 3 with 2.5k screen :)

Why is it that a phone with software button still has huge bezels.. The zu is much taller than the mega even though the screen is less than 0.2" bigger and the mega has physical buttons.. No doubt the zu is a beast of a phone but you would think with sw buttons it would be similar or same size as the mega..

Samsung makes small big phones. Their internals are the best by far. Look at any tear down and they manage to fit everything and have it dissipating heat properly. Look at HTC however, and it is a mess stacked like a pyramid with a blatant disregard for proper parts placement.

That is why i find it extremely laughable that Samsung is knocked for their build quality when they are by far the best at manufacturing and internal design processes. And they should be since they manufacturing everything.

If the tablet is thin, it is great. If a phone is too thin, (in the case of the S4) and the back and settings buttons are too sensitive, it could mean disaster. My friend has his S3 app-locked and I wanted to play a game on his phone. Every time I try to do so I touch the 'back' button by accident and he had to unlock the app again which is very annoying. Sony really caught the key of fixing that issue. Think about that. If the ZL was thinner, that means a smaller area of you hand can fit on the back of the phone, making your fingers stick out and hard to touch the screen without dangerously gripping your phone or accidentally touching any part of the screen. It's not all about thickness and size, but application. Tablets are better to be thin cause a thick tablet means hard handling, but they are so big that a thin tablet would still let you have plenty of grip on your device without holding it dangerously.

Back in 2011 when i first boought my smartphone (xperia neo v) that has 3.7" screen, Samsung S2 with 4.3" screen was introduced. And I thought to myself "who on earth would buy a phone this big?" and that the maximum screen size i would opt for is 4".

Now in 2013, the S4 'mini' comes with 4.3" screen and I feel comfortable with the 5" Xperia ZL. What a revolution!!

Yes the Xperia Z Ultra is noticeably larger than even the Mega 6.3, because it has very big bezels thats why the Z Ultra is only .14" bigger than the Galaxy Mega 6.3 but the phone looks way bigger. So Samsung has done it right by cutting the bezels and giving us a very compact design to fit in our pocket easily. The Xperia Z Ultra looks like a tablet, so Sony please make compact designs with less bezels.

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